Power Quotes
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
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A half-hearted spirit has no power. Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Average people enter into their endeavors headlong and without care.
Epictetus
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The point is not for women simply to take power out of men’s hands, since that wouldn’t change anything about the world. It’s a question precisely of destroying that notion of power.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It's like how science fiction in the '50s was a way of talking about war without actually having to risk any political capital. The obvious metaphor is power and powerlessness, but I also think it's a way of experimenting with dangerous feelings in a safe arena and trying things out.
Margaret Stohl
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So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
Marianne Williamson
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Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.
Anthony Robbins
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Women now wield considerable power along political lines and I believe each succeeding year for some time to come will find them wielding that power more effectively.
Bertha Knight Landes
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Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across the developed world and go straight to clean, distributed power.
Alex Honnold
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Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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When I'm fully fit, I have power and pace; then I feel good on the pitch.
Arjen Robben
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The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.
Norman L. Eisen
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
Bill Bonner
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All the power is with the sex that wears the beard.
Moliere
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Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.
Thomas Carlyle
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There's a lot of power and responsibility that comes with owning who you are as a woman.
Mia Goth
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Comfort and power can become great enemies of true spirituality, which explains why we often say that the prophets come not only to comfort the afflicted, but also to afflict the comfortable.
Brian D. McLaren
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I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.
Tom Cruise
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Such a prostitution of judicial power can never occur again under the shadow of the British law, for no jury within the wide circle of the empire would submit to such an infraction of their privilege, even if a judge could be found daring enough to attempt it.
Joseph Howe
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The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.
Ernest Holmes
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Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power, which is both warm and destructive. We're especially drawn to the power. Many of the images of technology are about making us more powerful, extending what we can do. Unfortunately, 95 percent of this is hype, because I think we're powerful without it.
Laurie Anderson
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I don't like the term 'coming out' because it gives the power to the other person.
Karamo Brown
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
Sallust